everyone donate 10$

[Grumblesaur]

According to FLSTAT discovery has 2,757 active players. 10,554 in total.

And, I can guarantee 90% of the 2757 active players are as excited about 4.85 as I am. That means (does the math) 2481 players battling over 200 slots.

Assuming 200 slots are filled, that leaves 2281 left on the outside. That means I'm in competition with 2280 people across the world for the next slot on the server that opens up.

Time Zones. So divide 2757 by 24 time zones (one per hour of the day) and you've got how many people you could be battling with.

Of course, any method is inaccurate, as there are people who stay up late and the adjacent time zones and whatnot aren't too far off.

**** it. You're dealing with at least 400 players at any given time right now.

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A way a lone a last a loved a long the riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay,
brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.

[tazuras]

Thing is, it does not matter how much money we have for the server computer.
It's not the hardware, it's cause of the FLServer program which is antique and doesn't support multi-threading, that is, doesn't support multiple CPU cores.

I thought the server program had been edited to provide multi-threading, thought i read that somewhere...

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[BaconSoda]

The thing is, the server software just can't be overclocked more. It just can't. This is it. It's 200, or the original 16. Pick one.

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[8:32:45 PM] Dusty Lens: Oh no, let me get that. Hello? Oh it's my grandma. She says to be roleplay.
[12:49:19 AM] Elgatodiablo: You know its nice that you have all that proof and all, Bacon... but I just don't believe you.

[johnpeter]

And there are all the hacks we use straining it!

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Come on! Be free!

[El Nino]

:Dhehe put in 500$ each and let's hire a software company to code us up a new FL with multithreading....

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My primary char: Jose El Nino - Corsair Elder captain of the SS Greenhawk

Currently Inactive due to pursuit of life long dreams, will be back...*edited* As promised am back.

[Fletcher]

Wow, you guys had trouble? I just double clicked on Disco once with 198 on, and got in straight away.

I think I should have stayed on.

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"Oh chuffing blimey, another day, another person being whiney!"
Fletcher's Feedback and Stories Thread

[Grimly]

so we can get a server that can hold more than 200 people >.>

Recoding that server from the reverse engineering on packets send would help much more;)

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Taking what's yours since 816 A.S.

[Reverend Del]

FLServer is hacked to use a second core but it doesn't do it very well. FlServer was never much cop to begin with and so the fact it's also 6 years old hasn't helped it much. The current multiplayer patch is clocked as high as it can go without making the server ridiculously unstable.

The current hardware is more than optimal for what we're doing with it. It's in fact far too good. It's the software that let's us down. Cannon has wirttena new character editor which is far more efficient and a lot less prone to hissy fits than IFSO, there is continual development on our anti-cheat software, increasing the efficiency, the only thing letting us down is the botch job that microsoft made of FLServer. Until someone can write us a new program that does the job better the server is stuck as it is stuck.

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Saint Del is considered a holy healer of diseases of children, but also as a protector of cattle.

[mwerte]

*goes and learns how to create a new FLServer*

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[Immunity]

Making servers is easy.

:crazy:

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